> "j=j+2" inside IF does not change the loop > counter ("j")
You might be not truly catching the idea of Python `for` statements sequence nature. It seems that <http://docs.python.org/ref/for.html> will make things quite clear. > The suite may assign to the variable(s) in the target list; this > does not affect the next item assigned to it. In C you do not specify all the values the "looping" variable will be assigned to, unlike (in the simplest case) you do in Python. -- Happy Hacking. Dmitry "Sphinx" Dzhus http://sphinx.net.ru -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list